Jissen Karate

After 19-20 years of sportskarate, and standardization of Shotokan, I had to acknowledge that Shotokan ...

Yoshitaka "Gigo" Funakoshi was born in Okinawa in 1906. Already from childhood, he was diagnosed ...

Are you doing strength training alongside your Karate? If not, then maybe you should consider ...

Kata was created to function in a perfect fight situation. Everything is predetermined. When we ...

Some instructors claim that Kata harbors hidden techniques, asserting that these were concealed during Karate's ...

An important point to keep in mind in Karate is the use of force! If ...

Most practitioners of Karate do not pay much attention to the whole technique. I think ...

Learning a Kata is a nuanced process that involves more than just mastering patterns and ...

Nami-gaeshi translates into "wave return", a more understandable description is "returning wave". The name of ...

Bunkai means "to break down", and thus describes the whole process that lies in breaking ...